Well in that case Ben, if it's only about helping KBOO, why not buy one
membership, one vote, for say $60/year, and save KBOO the paperwork for
say, two kids? The cat is already out of the bag that you want to be
President of the Board, hence your condemnations of the current
President. I've never seen anyone campaign so hard for it, and it is
happening in the midst of a power struggle. For all I know you'd be a
great President, but given the context, I will vote for someone else.

Everything changed that morning in April, when it came out that the
Treasurer and the Executive Director (at least) attempted--really,
lunged--to fire every member of the Staff. If I had any doubts that
KBOO was facing another corporatization attempt, that ended it. That
was ugly. It will take years to recover the esprit de corps that is so
essential to growth.

Theresa's vision is SWEEPING in it's simplicity!! Instead of 5,000 KBOO members, we could have 2,500! Or 1,666.66! MORE donations mean LESS members! We could save kboo MORE paperwork if EACH member gave $1000!!!!! That would only be FIVE(5) members!!! Without losing on cent of our current revenue!!!!!

FIVE members, comrades!!! Think of the TREES you'll be saving!! AMIRITE????

This is the VISION KBOO needs to steer it into the Radio Worker's Paradise of TOMORROW!!

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Sorry, Traitor Hoyne has already let the cat out of the bag, with his treasonous post on BlueOregon. Representative quotes:

"For the past many years, even decades, KBOO has been controlled by a shrinking number of people"

"At KBOO, people have not been showing up at the polls for years and the quality of radio, along with community support, has suffered."

"In addition to losing democratic participation, KBOO has been losing members annually, down to just over 5,000 presently."

..and worst of all:

"If you’ve never had the pleasure of living in a town with a great community radio station, you’re missing out."

The fact is, if it simply continued to be up to paid staff to run things, KBOO would be absolutely perfect! Who cares that no one listens to KBOO?

Traitor Hoyne's evil plan to broaden the membership and make KBOO more relevant to Portland should be fought fiercely! He should only be allowed to recruit new members, if those members pledge to help fire the evil Fitch, and never, never, never, challenge the status quo.

After all, the important people at KBOO have been associated with the station for decades! Newish interlopers should know their place, and not suggest any changes for twenty years or so!

1) Take control of KBOO by secret meeting2) Plan special meeting to take KBOO away from board3) Create special class of member (new member)4) Only members who voted in last election get a ballot5) Don't tell anyone about secret plan6) Get rid of EVIL FITCH and all her minions7) Create new PSA's extolling the virtue of KBOO

Comrade, UAMWRONG. You wrote :Theresa's vision is SWEEPING in it's simplicity!! Instead of 5,000 KBOO members, we could have 2,500! Or 1,666.66! MORE donations mean LESS members! We could save kboo MORE paperwork if EACH member gave $1000!!!!! That would only be FIVE(5) members!!! Without losing on cent of our current revenue!!!!!

Five members giving $1,000 would only be $5,000. KBOO's 2010 revenue was $617,000. Estimating downwards for falling donations, gives a nice round working figure of $500,000. Meaning five(5) members would have to donate $100,000 each to fund KBOO.

The good news is we learned from the Fitch Lynch Mob Meeting that we have at least 200 loyal cadre. They need to immediately pony up $2,500. Then we can take over the Party, er..station AND barely keep it on financial life support indefinitely.

DEFECTING FROM THE INNER PARTY?

Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY.

But seriously folks...

For readers who don't know the background, this blog was started by a group of KBOO radio fans.

Recent events at the station have been blown out of proportion by a small group of KBOO members who feel threatened by actions of management trying to address the very real issue of financial trouble and keep the station viable.

These people instead believe they are victims of a conspiracy involving Station Navigator Lynn Fitch and have promoted their cause with the worst kind of missionary zeal, in some cases using unethical tactics like impersonation. They call themselves "Keep KBOO KBOO" and appear to be led by Theresa Mitchell, who has a penchant for using revolutionary imagery and jargon. Allies include KBOO Board members abusing their influence. This begged for satire, thus this blog was born.

We are documenting the ongoing tussle and any new fibs and misinformation the "Keep KBOO KBOO" crowd creates. They also have a website called savekboo.org . We recommend anyone leaving comments there to archive them in text or images, as a certain amount of rewriting history is known to happen there.

BACK TO THE BARRICADES COMRADES!!!!

Praise for "Save KBOO from Save KBOO"

"is the funniest thing I've read in a long time." - delighted at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013

"Anyway, the obsessives here are directly and clearly defined by how many 'NYAH NYAH NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYAH (e.g. "save kboo from asave kboo")'-titled smear-blog Obsessive Paranoiac websites they can manage to create in a week. " -huh? at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013